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Home inspector Tim Hockenberry gives step-by-step instructions showing how to replace an old exhaust fan and install a new
How a green home really "breathes" Should a green home require a piece of ventilation equipment like our Zehnder HRV? Photo Credit: Alex Wilson
Get the air flowing in your home without wasting money by letting heat escape.
Proper interior ventilation is vital to your family's health and comfort. It helps your home rid itself of moisture, smoke, cooking odors, and indoor pollutants. ...
Let's face it, when it's hot and you don't have air conditioning it can be borderline homicidal. What's worse is when the temperature begins to dip outside and your home feels like an oven. Most of us turn on a fan to get some air moving across our skin - which is a great idea.But moving hot air around feels pretty futile, doesn't it? What if you could replace the air in your house with new, cooler air, quickly and efficiently? You can! All you need is a fan and a cooling plan.When I was a volunteer firefighter we had to replace the air in people's homes all the time. We would get called to a home because someone forgot to take the bread from the oven and the smoke emanating from the stove would begin to fill the entire home. Often time we could completely exchange the air in ...
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air is often more than 10 times (and sometimes more than 100 times) more polluted than outdoor air. Indoor air pollutants contribute to asthma as well as other respiratory conditions and diseases.
One of the most practical and effective ways to accomplish sustainability and green-living, even in an urban environment, is through natural ventilation. What is natural ventilation? In simple terms, natural ventilation is a method of allowing fresh outdoor air into living spaces without the use of air conditioning units and other types of mechanically driven devices. Another term associated with natural ventilation is “passive cooling”, which refers to designs that do not use complicated or sophisticated mechanical equipment in order to induce comfortable conditions in a building interior. A good and simple example is building large open windows in a home instead of incorporating air conditioning units.
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